Miss Apis’s Tongue. 29 
get her head into the tiny openings that 
lead to the nectar? 
You need not worry about that. She 
knows what to do, and all at once produces 
a long shining brown tongue and 
thrusts it deep down into the nectar. 
Here is a morning-glory that must 
Qu have had an X-ray turned upon it, 
EN -\for we can see right through it to 
SX \\ where Miss Apis is reaching 
~ her brown tongue down to 
the nectar. 
This tongue is almost as queer as her 
eyes. Not that she has twelve thousand 
six hundred tongues. Oh, no; one tongue 
like hers is quite enough, as you: probably 
will agree when you know —- SRD sat 
more about it. ee Ses, 
It is a long tongue and a ~arop of honey. 
strong tongue, and curls about, lapping up 
the sweetness, as you can see for yourself 
if you catch her and give her a drop of 
honey. 
